Modules 22 & 23 Vocabulary

Question 1

: our awareness of ourselves and our environment

Answer 1

Consciousness

Question 2

: a social interaction in which a person (the subject) responds to another person’s (the hypnotist’s) suggestions that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur

Answer 2

Hypnosis

Question 3

: a suggestion, made during a hypnosis session, to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized; used by some clinicians to help control undesired symptoms and behaviors

Answer 3

Posthypnotic suggestion

Question 4

: a split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others

Answer 4

Dissociation

Question 5

: the biological clock; regular body rhythms (for example, of temperature ad wakefulness) that occur on a 24-hour cycle

Answer 5

Circadian rhythm

Question 6

: rapid eye movement sleep; a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. Also known as a paradoxical sleep, because the muscles are relaxed (except for minor twitches) but our body systems are active

Answer 6

REM sleep

Question 7

: the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state

Answer 7

Alpha waves

Question 8

: periodic, natural loss of consciousness - a distant from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation

Answer 8

Sleep

Question 9

: false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus

Answer 9

Hallucinations

Question 10

: the large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep

Answer 10

Delta waves

Question 11

: non-rapid eye movement sleep, encompasses all sleep stages except for R.E.M. Sleep

Answer 11

NREM sleep

Question 12

: a pair of cell clusters in the hypothalamus that controls circadian rhythm. In response to light, this causes the pineal gland to adjust melatonin production, this modifying our feelings of sleepiness

Answer 12

Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)